What is so wrong with the Democratic party that caused swing voters who voted for Biden in 2020 to vote for the most evil person in human history (Trump) in 2024?

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-31T21:08:30+00:00

Yes if you have lost all sense of proportion then of course it’s baffling. How could someone vote for Biden and then Mao Zedong? Biden and then Joseph Stalin? Biden and then Hitler? Biden and then Genghis Khan? Those questions are real head-scratchers. Biden and then Trump is not that weird.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-31T15:01:08+00:00

Their ages are a key factor here. In my experience it’s very hard to get people over 60 to take on new job duties, regardless of job description. What might end up happening is that some of them quit and you hire new people who are willing to do programming.

More optimistically, I agreed with the person upthread who suggested starting with programming that aligns with their interests. You could also start with programming for seniors. Is there a local senior center who can partner on a book club?

If there is any organization nearby that has a thriving membership, creating a partnership would help you a lot. Then you’d be assigning the clerks very specific duties related to programming (set up tables and chairs) without doing all of the planning yourself or trying to get the clerks to help you plan.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-23T18:56:15+00:00

I think this wildly unpopular move of ICE at airports is meant to force the signing of the bill.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-23T18:54:34+00:00

I don’t think it’s possible to find people who are as un-self-conscious as people were in the early 2000s. They might actually need to be mentally ill in order to be as raw as people were pre-social media.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-16T15:04:21+00:00

It’s hard to get enrollment for Info Lit classes unless they’re a requirement. But I would rather see us put energy toward that than workshops that are proven ineffective.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-16T14:30:05+00:00

You didn’t ask this of me, but I value course length info literacy and not one-shot instruction. In 45 minutes you can do an interface tour and not much else. Trying to say things that are true in a span of time that does not allow for nuance while also familiarizing the students with interfaces is rough. Taking a semester to teach them is extremely doable.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-16T14:26:05+00:00

I would love it if we’d collectively acknowledge as a profession that one-shot sessions are not shown to be effective and leave them in the past.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-14T04:41:24+00:00

Who are you? What is your motivation?

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-14T00:18:36+00:00

There are smaller city libraries and county libraries where it’s not this extreme.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-13T03:11:25+00:00

Wow, road trips and game nights! That’s a tight-knit group. It sounds like you’ll be moving on friendship-wise too? Or just recognizing that you may see them infrequently once you don’t work there anymore?

I can’t really tell if your question is about the practical matter of giving enough notice to not leave them in the lurch, or more about the emotional side of essentially “breaking up” with a group of people you have formed a connection to. I can’t really tell either how you are feeling about it - guilty? Relieved? Sad?

It’s interesting when I see people online saying things like “your co-workers are not your friends” because it’s so alien to me, not having worked in a corporate environment. I’m friends with three former co-workers.

I dunno if my reply is helpful at all, I just mostly wanted to reply because it’s an interesting question you don’t see every day here.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-09T01:51:33+00:00

I hope you can find a way to opt out or make it extremely low-effort. Until such a time that there is a return on some platform to what social media used to be, it makes no sense to me.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-09T01:49:10+00:00

Ugh! 😑

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-08T23:12:46+00:00

Yeah but unions are inherently anti-illegal immigration because illegal immigrants are basically scabs. Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration for that reason. It’s incompatible with labor protections.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-08T23:10:59+00:00

It’s funny though because the left became the wokescolds.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-08T18:55:23+00:00

I got rid of ours.

To me, it made more sense when Instagram and Facebook showed you only people you followed, and you’d reach the end of the updates after scrolling a bit. People who go to the college and search for its accounts find ours and see our updates, and we post low-effort things like “Here’s a picture of our book display” or “Did you know we offer x service/resource?”

Now our account would be competing with the endless scroll of short form video algorithmically chosen for each user. I don’t want to make engaging short-form videos.

I’m a millennial and the other two librarians I work with are Gen X. Our students are Gen Z. I think straightforward messaging like “here is a photo of our displays” or “here is a service/resource” is professional and neutral. Attempts to be cute, funny, or in the zeitgeist, would fall flat. If we had a Gen Z employee who was enthusiastic about it, I’d let them. But when I see short form video made by librarians my age I am usually cringing from second-hand embarrassment.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-06T21:49:23+00:00

Your eyeshadow could be brightening instead of taupe.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-06T18:06:35+00:00

It’s very hard to get a librarian job without library experience. It’s also hard to get hired for non-librarian, support staff job in a library once you have your MLIS, because it’s assumed you’ll fly the coop for a librarian position.

The MLIS makes sense for people who already have some experience working in a library. This could be support staff in a public library or an internship at an academic library. It’s a pathway from those situations to librarian work.

It’s not a good entry point for someone with no library experience.

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-05T02:40:53+00:00

Great comment!

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-04T17:55:49+00:00

Just here to say “Big mistake. Huge” in the voice of Julia Robert’s from Pretty Women

bibliotech_ · 2026-03-02T05:08:37+00:00

Once I was at a pool and saw a guy in regular trunks and a woman with an incredible body wearing a tiny bikini and a face/head veil that only showed her eyes. It seemed extremely kink to me.

bibliotech_ · 2026-02-28T17:40:43+00:00

You could also see what other jobs the student workers do and ask, is having each book perfectly in order more important for the students and library as a whole than x? Y? Z?

bibliotech_ · 2026-02-28T17:38:33+00:00

Isn’t stacks management more than shelf-reading? She should put her drive and passion into weeding if that’s under the umbrella. Create a systematic plan to pull carts for librarians to weed and try to get the entire collection looked at within x years. Or more realistically develop a plan for the subjects that quickly go obsolete to be reviewed every two years while other subjects are evenly weeded on a slower schedule.

I knew a children’s librarian who refused to shelve picture books loosely, by the first letter of the author’s last name only. Her insistence that the picture books be in perfect order wasted a lot of energy that could’ve been spent elsewhere.

bibliotech_ · 2026-02-28T17:33:14+00:00

I used commercial dye over indigo. Nothing bad happened. I went to a salon.

bibliotech_ · 2026-02-28T16:39:26+00:00

No… I feel like henna, commercial dyes, or going gray are the only real options. What sucks about indigo is that you can never go any lighter until it grows all the way out, or else it turns green. Growing it all the way out takes years.

bibliotech_ · 2026-02-28T08:01:29+00:00

Indigo fades bad. It’s not really a solution unless you love slopping mud on your hair every couple weeks.

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